Untitled (A Machine for Living)

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Whitehall

Untitled (A Machine for Living) is a dramatically lit night-time view of a deep quarry, overlooked by an electricity pylon. The long photographic exposure reveals the streaks of stars in the sky. Behind the trees at the top of the quarry, an orange glow can be seen, which is the only indication of the huge Bluewater retail park in Kent which lies just out of sight. Holdsworth transforms everyday scenes which most people would ignore into beautiful and intense images. He focuses on the margins between rural and urban areas.

Places

England, Kent

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, night, electrical pylon, quarry

Materials & Techniques

aluminium, photograph (as object name), C-type photograph

Artist

Dan Holdsworth (1974 - )

Title

Untitled (A Machine for Living)

Edition

4/5

Date

1999/2000

Medium

C-type photograph on aluminium

Dimensions

height: 92.50 cm, width: 114.50 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from Entwistle Gallery, March 2001

Inscription

verso, ur: DH + monogram / 2000 / 4/5

Provenance

L. & R. Entwistle & Co. Ltd

GAC number

17576